While watching an old family video, Jimmy realizes that he had a great music talent until an accident that made him talentless, so he decides to find a way to regain his abilities.
When Burt reveals Sabrina's secret to the Chance family, she is forced to introduce her father Cap to them, and Jimmy decides to use this info to introduce Hope to a rich lifestyle, causing Sabrina to reveal her insecurities.
Burt learns more about the time he was kidnapped twenty years ago when his "kidnapper" pays him a visit. Jimmy's jealousy reaches new heights when Sabrina waits for a message from Wyatt.
Virginia, Burt, Jimmy and Sabrina head to Las Vegas to attend Virginia's cousin Delilah's wedding. Virginia is embarrassed that she didn't have the big wedding that her snooty cousin will have, so Burt attempts to make it up to her. Meanwhile, Jimmy tries to make a move on Sabrina who wants to go wild in Vegas.
The Chances are forced to camp out on the front lawn while their house is being tented for termites, but the sudden change of living arrangements is the least of their worries when they find out that Hope hit a boy at the day care, worrying everyone that she might just be following in the footsteps of her mother.
A thirteen-year-old kid makes a run for Sabrina, which drives Jimmy absolutely crazy. Meanwhile, Maw Maw swallows her gold tooth and Burt and Virginia contemplate retrieving it.
In order to impress Burt\'s wealthy parents, the Chance family borrows a house and pretends they\'re living a lavish lifestyle - that is, until the real owners return prematurely, and Burt\'s parents finally learn exactly what the life of a Chance family is all about.
Virginia wants the entire family to submit their inventions during the National Invention Convention Extravaganza to win a lot of money, but when everyone separates into groups with their own inventions, the competition gets fierce.
After his father challenges him to take more risks, Jimmy attends a party with Frank and they end up bonding over having the same high school bully.
While watching a movie at the cinema, the Chance family comes to stunning realization that the plot of the movie is quite similar to their own life. Meanwhile, Jimmy travels into a state of mind where he had never met Lucy and therefore never had Hope.
After realizing that his daughter might be a baby genius, Jimmy decides to go back to school for a G.E.D. exam, but his effort is thwarted by a school teacher keen on making Jimmy's life harder.
Burt becomes obsessed with gambling when he believes he can reclaim all the items he lost when he bet away all the Chance's belongings nearly 20 years ago. Worried about his bad habit reemerging, Virginia and Jimmy try to intervene but soon get swept up in the betting frenzy and develop their own gambling habit.
Burt is buried in receipts and finances during corporate tax season, so he hires Barney as his business manager. Caught up in the stress, Burt makes a hurtful comment about Virginia's career, prompting her to seek a new business venture. But when Virginia becomes a tarot card reader and predicts the future for the residents of New Natesville, she realizes that her fortunes may have more power than she thinks.
Jimmy's spirits are low when Sabrina's relationship with Wyatt becomes serious, so Virginia and Burt convince him to create a make-believe girlfriend to make her jealous. Barney invites Jimmy to his improv class, where he meets Mary-Louise who agrees to play along with his plan to win over Sabrina. But when their acting becomes too convincing and Sabrina falls for their fake relationship, all plans might backfire on Jimmy.
As Jimmy and Sabrina\'s relationship continues to grow, they both begin to realize that they\'ve been hiding some of their habits from each other. They agree to let their guards down and start acting like themselves completely, but when Sabrina reveals an unusual childhood phobia, Jimmy decides to help her overcome her fear in a startling way. Meanwhile, Burt reveals a habit he\'s been keeping from Virginia for years.
Virginia takes on a job as a house sitter for a teenage girl, and when she learns that the girl plans to have sex with her boyfriend, she decides to dispense some motherly advice. Maw Maw continues confusing Jimmy and Sabrina.
Virginia and Sabrina team up to get rid of a raccoon that starts living under the Chance house porch. Meanwhile, Jimmy is frustrated when his parents suggests he should start spanking a misbehaving Hope; and when Burt reveals another secret from Jimmy's childhood, it brings Jimmy to a new realisation.
Virginia agrees to be a live-in house sitter for her client and look after a troublesome teenage girl. When she learns that the teen and her boyfriend are ready to take their relationship to the next level, she and Burt try to use their experience to convince them against it. But Burt makes a confession that comes as a surprise to Virginia. Meanwhile, Maw Maw once again confuses Jimmy with her late husband Wilfrid, so Jimmy and Sabrina play along.
When attention-seeking Sarah Louise announces her plans to run for another term as chairperson of the Natesville church group, Burt decides to run against her. To test Burt's ability to handle a community task, Sarah Louise assigns him pig-sitting duties for a blind church member. But when the guide pig accidentally becomes family dinner, Burt must find and train a replacement pig before Sarah Louise finds out and ruins his chances of being elected.
When Jimmy finds out Sabrina has a new attractive study partner, Virginia convinces him that they are doing more than just studying. Meanwhile, Burt develops an obsession with a wall figurine.
In a very special "mockumentary" episode, Nancy Grace examines the "real story" of Hope's mom, serial hugger Lucy Carlisle. Grace interviews each member of the Chance family, all of whom relay personal accounts of exactly what happened when Jimmy met Lucy back in 2008. At the end of the program, the Chances are shocked to find out developing details about Lucy.
Following the revelations of the "Inside Probe" expose of their family history, the Chances are put on trial in a fight to retain custody of Hope.